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Response:

The claim is simply false. Dozens of articles exist on the subjects
for which Behe claims the literature is missing. David Ussery, for
example, found 107 articles on cilia evolution, 125 on flagella
evolution, 27 on the evolution of the entire coagulation system, 130 on
the evolution of vesicle transport, and 84 on "molecular evolution of
the immune system" (Ussery 1999).

Behe tries to make his claim appear more dramatic by overstating our
understanding of the molecular workings of the cell. For example, he
says, "Over the past four decades modern biochemistry has uncovered the
secrets of the cell" (1996, 232). But our understanding has only just
begun. In the years since Behe wrote his book, journals have been
filled with thousands of research articles uncovering new information,
and much remains to be uncovered. When the complete Escherichia
coli
genome was sequenced in 1998, the functions of a third of its genes
were still completely unknown, and E. coli is much simpler than
human
cells.

Behe's work on intelligent design theory has produced no publications
in scientific literature. In fact, there have been no scientific
publications on intelligent design by any of its proponents (Gilchrist
1997).